I am at this moment having a scoop of chocolate ice cream and a cup of coffee. I am watching for the second time a wonderful film called The Pianist with Adrien Brody.
Not all things in life need to be experienced in order for us to know whether or not we like them or want them. I don't need to endure a gunshot wound to tell me that I don’t want to be shot.
Besides, I have tried it before, more than once, in fact, more than one variety, in fact, and that’s why/how I know I don’t like it.
Gunshot wounds are not a good analogy compared to coffee. Also, you said you never drink it, yet you have on more than on occasion. I have not nor I will ever eat yoghurt. I have seen it under a X1,000 power microscope.
There nothing wrong with the analogy: it makes the point. Just because you like coffee and I do not, that doesn’t diminish the validity of the analogy.
The phrase “I never drink it” refers to the present continual sense, it speaks nothing of the past. I did not state “I have never had coffee”, which conveys an entirely different concept. ~